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Background: Manual thrombus aspiration and local drug delivery of abciximab have been proposed as a strategy to reduce thrombus burden during percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction; however, the effectiveness of these approaches, is uncertain. In this COCTAIL II substudy, we compared the effect of these strategies on prestenting and poststenting thrombus burden assessed by optical coherence tomography. Patients and methods: COCTAIL II trial enrolled patients ...

Frequency-domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) is a promising intracoronary imaging technique to study atherosclerosis. Indeed, its unprecedented spatial resolution allows the assessment of fibrous cap thickness, lipid pool and features of plaque vulnerability. Aim of this study was to determine the reproducibility of the in vivo FD-OCT measurements of lumen area and plaque components in serial studies. Twenty-six patients undergoing FD-OCT assessment of intermediate lesion during coronary angiography were included ...

Aims: Fully bioresorbable Absorb poly-L-lactic-acid (PLLA) scaffolds (Abbott Vascular, Santa Clara, CA, USA) are a novel approach for the treatment of coronary narrowing. Due to the translucency of the material (PLLA), the optical coherence tomography (OCT) measurement methods used in the ABSORB trials were unique but not applicable for permanent metallic stents. When the Absorb scaffold and metallic stents are compared in the context of randomised trials, it is challenging ...

Background Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been shown to reliably detect cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV). In recent studies performed in adult heart transplant (HTx) recipients, OCT revealed the presence of vulnerable plaques and complicated coronary artery lesions, thus challenging the current concept that CAV disease is a diffuse concentric and fibrosing vasculopathy. The aim of our study was to characterize CAV by OCT in a young population of HTx recipients ...

Aims: We compared optical coherence tomography (OCT) features of intermediate and severe coronary stenoses in patients with stable angina and acute coronary syndrome (ACS), and tested the clinical impact of an OCT-based strategy for treating intermediate stenoses. Methods: The study enrolled 135 consecutive patients with either ACS or stable angina and a single de-novo coronary stenosis. Patients were divided into two groups: intermediate stenosis defined as quantitative coronary angiography percentage ...

Aims: The aim of this study was to understand better the mechanisms of repair of plaque complications causing acute coronary syndrome. Methods and results: We used OCT in the acute phase and at follow-up (one to seven months) to investigate the plaque healing in 10 culprit plaques: five ruptured fibrous cap (RFC) and five intact fibrous cap (IFC) which were not treated with stent deployment and caused ST-segment elevation myocardial ...

Imaging systems transmit and acquire signals and are subject to errors including: error sources, signal variations or possible calibration errors. These errors are included in all imaging systems for atherosclerosis and are propagated to methodologies implemented for the segmentation and characterization of atherosclerotic plaque. In this paper, we present a study for the propagation of imaging errors and image segmentation errors in plaque characterization methods applied to 2D vascular images ...

Angiography remains the gold standard for assessment of atherosclerotic impairment of coronary arteries and for guidance of coronary intervention. Angiography, as a main limitation, only depicts the luminal narrowings caused by coronary plaques, without showing the structures located beneath, such as the atherosclerotic lesions or the vessel wall. Intravascular imaging modalities are currently adopted to circumvent angiographic limitations. Optical coherence tomography (OCT)) is a novel imaging technique that uses infrared ...

Intravascular imaging modalities are currently adopted to circumvent angiographic limitations. The present overview is aimed at describing the principal techniques used by an interventional cardiologist to assess both coronary atherosclerotic plaques and stent deployment results. Optical coherence tomography (OCT), intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), and near-infrared spectroscopy are currently available to address these issues. These techniques are characterized by specific advantages and limitations, making each of those applicable for specific purposes. Offline ...

Plaque rupture (PR) and superimposed thrombosis have been shown as the most frequent underlying substrate in acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Coronary angiography is a luminogram not able to define in vivo features of the culprit plaques. The aim of the study was to use optical coherence tomography (OCT) to investigate the pathology underlying complex (CL) and non-complex angiographic lesions (NCL). We retrospectively enrolled 107 ACS patients admitted to our institution ...

Aims Patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) may have different plaque morphologies at the culprit lesion. In particular, plaque rupture (PR) has been shown as the more frequent culprit plaque morphology in ACS. However, its prognostic value is still unknown. In this study, we evaluated the prognostic value of PR, compared with intact fibrous cap (IFC), in patients with ACS. Methods and results We enrolled consecutive patients admitted to ...

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The technique allows high-resolution arterial-wall imaging in the range of 10-20 microns, allowing penetrance into the arterial wall and visualisation of specific components of the atherosclerotic plaques, including calcification, fibrotic tissue, necrotic lipid pools and thrombotic components.